In the word of Jim Stephanie Stirling, “They don’t just want a lot of money. They want all the money.”

They won’t do that. They’re also greedy racist fascists. That’s what capitalism is.

I work in the financial industry in the uk, we have to declare everything in our financials and have strict rules on gifts over £25 in value, how to declare them, what it’s not allowed, etc.

How the fuck is this not the same for politicians? We obviously see the danger to our economy of bribery and influence. How do we not do the same in running the fucking country! How is this even a question!

Everyone loves a log!

He’s using the by-election to pause the investigation into his finances, and hoping to use an election win as a mandate and proof that he did nothing wrong, because a crook could never win a fair election, right?!

The only way the other parties can respond to this, which is what they’re all now doing, is to not stand a candidate, thereby no vote is cast that can be used as Farage’s mandate/retribution, and the investigation will continue, which will hopefully lead to him being removed from his seat, and a proper by-election will then be run.

Basically, Farage is once again trying to distract from his wonton corruption by playing political theatre, distracting the masses, and giving himself a way to save face, or even turn it around to a win.

I’ve been using graphene for over a year now, had used stock android since the HTC g1. Honest answer, graphene is stock without the annoyances, and finer grained security configuration. Major frustration is banking apps/no google pay, but since I switched banks (which I did because my old bank funds Israel) the new app works perfectly fine, so your milage may vary. Lack of google pay is inconvenient only if I leave my wallet at home, which is rare. Otherwise, it’s rare that something is broken just because it’s graphene, and if it is, the forums usually have the answer.

That’ll help to digitise aLl ThEsE gAmEs that are coming out, eh Microsoft?

I will post this every time this ship comes up.

Little Achievements is a fanfic acted out by Alexander Siddig and Andrew Robinson. It’s great.

Also, Matt Baum’s Culture Cruise on them is really good.

With that caveat that those preconceived notions were instilled by decades of right wing press that has propped up that same self serving troglodyte.

I’ll say it again, because I think the idea is a practical solution to the issue: electricity and water usage should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive it becomes.

This would actually incentivise companies to reduce their usage, to question if they actually need that new AI data centre that will eat up all the gains in renewable electricity production and require fossil fuel plants to continue running, it’ll reduce the crypto miners as well, and encourage everyone to try to reduce their usage.

The knock on effect of this is that electricity actually becomes cheaper for everyone.

Twice. Once at the end of Final Fantasy IX, realising who was monologuing the ending at what that meant.

Second one was at the end of What Remains of Edith Finch, pretty much for exactly the same reasons.

I was just thinking electricity should be charged at reverse volume, the more you use, the more expensive each Gw is. It’ll never happen, but if we wanted to tackle this issue, it’s what we should do.

I’ve been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.

For Brits of a certain age: 0(1)81 811 8181

Yeah, it should be “fig 1”, “also fig 1, but the other half”.

All of the Ubi-art games were great, Rayman Legends, Valiant Hearts and Child of Light, all fantastic games. And then Ubisoft said they would only make open world games. Idiots.

The Evil Dead trilogy.

A younger friend of mine had started playing the Evil Dead game with some of his friends but had never seen the movies. I’d not watched them in years, so I invited him over to marathon them one weekend. We drank, ate pizza and did the whole trilogy, and we had an absolute blast. He loved how different each movie was, especially Heart of Darkness. How each one gets sillier than the last.

A few months later, Evil Dead Rise came out in the cinema, so we had to go see it. While this was much more a straight up horror movie (with a small amount of the Evil Dead silliness), I still enjoyed it (I find horror movies quite funny, like an emotional rollercoaster), but he was hiding behind his coat the whole time, terrified of what was happening on screen. That made it even funnier for me.

Nah, he’ll be put in charge of women’s health and reproductive rights.

The tax isn’t the point. The point is to crash the economy so that the rich can buy up as much as possible as cheaply as possible, once more consolidating more wealth into their hands and robbing it from the rest of us. They don’t care if the price of eggs, or iPhones, or any other goods are going to increase, they have the funds to wait that out, but when the cost of ownership of land, property or corporations goes down, they can buy them up and control that wealth once it recovers.

They don’t care that you suffer. They just want to own all the stuff.

Edit: wow, 8 hours later and I’m already proven right: https://lemmy.nz/post/21369385

I use Qobuz, and I like it a lot. You can easily download music for offline listening, there’s a lot of high def on there, and from what information is known about how much streaming services pay back to record labels, Qobuz appears to be the biggest payer per stream.

The app is no frills, they only added auto generated playlists a year or so ago. Their recommendations are less tailored, but high quality if you’re wanting to explore outside your usual tastes.

Plus, it’s just music. No podcasts, no audiobooks, no games, no generative ai for some reason.